Brooklyn-Centric Film Series Kicks Off On Halloween With Walter Hill’s ‘The Warriors,’ Includes Films By Spike Lee, Noah Baumbach & More

Here’s a pretty cool treat for those that live in Brooklyn — like many of us on The Playlist team. Beginning on Halloween (October 31), the excellent BAMcinématek repertory house will be launching their “Brooklyn Close-Up” series; a year-long retrospective that marks BAM’s 150th anniversary and celebrates the rich film history that has taken place in the borough.

Celebrating nine decades of Brooklyn film, BAM is the oldest performing arts center in the country, and as part of this commemoration, the “Brooklyn Close-Up” series will feature an iconic film on the last Monday of every month through December 2012.

Extra cool is the fact that the series will celebrate many of Brooklyn’s various neighborhoods by highlighting films that took place there. Bed-Stuy will be represented by Spike Lee’s unforgettable “Do The Right Thing,” Bay Ridge will get shine via “Saturday Night Fever,” Carroll Gardens love will be shown through “Moonstruck,” Park Slope will be personified by films by Hal Ashby and Noah Baumbach (“The Landlord,” “The Squid & The Whale”), Williamsburg will be showcased by Elia Kazan’s classic tale, “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn,” Walter Hill’s “The Warriors” will feature Coney Island and so on and so on. Below you’ll see the line-up and the exclusive “Brooklyn Close-Up” series poster as designed by Brooklyn artist Nathan Gelgud. Some of the future screenings will be double features and many will be followed by Q&As with special guests – something to keep an eye on.